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Michael Hawkes is a professional computer technician who writes open source PHP code as a hobby, and spends the rest of his spare time playing with his cats, working in the garden, and working on a master's degree in education. He is the sole-proprietor of 10th Street Media, LLC.
When I started taking graduate classes in Instructional Systems Technology (IST) last fall, we were told pretty early on, that IST is a subset of…
How apropos. In last week’s post, I commented on how the chapter I was reading could do with an update to reflect educational changes as…
The readings for this week covered the history of instructional technology, and my first thought when I saw this on the syllabus was, “Didn’t we…
After being on Second Life again for a few months, I was getting tired of the home I had as a premium member. It wasn’t…
This may come as a surprise to some, but education, instruction, and learning aren’t synonyms of each other. Those concepts have quite a bit of…
Are you hungry? Here’s a bowl of candy. Help yourself. Oh, I should probably warn you about them first. I’m not sure how it happened,…
In taking classes about education, I suppose it’s inevitable that I’ll read something that describes the classes I’ve been taking. Sort of a meta-education. Thus…
This week’s readings dealt with two different concepts of learning that arrived on the scene some time after behaviorism. These are cognitive theory and constructivism.…
Since starting work on my master’s degree, I’ve found myself thinking more and more about Second Life, the online virtual world that once seemed to…